Branch holder turns dead sticks into awesome swords

Opinion on Naama Agassi's Branch Holder could go one of two
ways. You could dismiss it, clucking like an exasperated aunt,
calling it useless. Who needs a gadget to hold a branch after
all?

Or you might take one look and wish that Agassi had made this
30-something years ago, when you were a kid (if you're as old as
me, that is). The Branch Holder is a rubber strip with two holes.
You thread it onto a suitably straight stick and that stick
instantly -- and magically -- becomes a sword, turning an otherwise average kid into a swashbuckling pirate, a samurai
warrior or even (gasp) a ninja.

It also offers a measure of protection to the knuckles of
duelling children, meaning one less scrape to clean up after a
scrap. Sadly, Agassi's invention is a concept design only, but that
shouldn't stop you. After all, anyone with enough imagination to
believe a stick can be a sword has enough imagination to raid the
kitchen and chop up some Tupperware.